極きょく小しょう

na-adjective, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', noun

minimum; minuscule; extremely small

Describes something at the smallest possible scale, often in technical or emphatic contexts. Can be used as a noun, adjectival noun (na-adjective), or prenominal (no-adjective).

• この機き械かいは極きょく小しょうの部ぶ品ひんでできている。

  This machine is made of minuscule parts.

• 極きょく小しょうな文も字じで書かかれた注ちゅう意い書がき。

  A warning written in extremely small letters.

noun

local minimum

Only with reading きょくしょう

Mathematics term for a local minimum of a function. Restricted to the reading きょくしょう.

• この関かん数すうの極きょく小しょう値ちを求もとめなさい。

  Find the local minimum of this function.